Wednesday, December 06, 2006

First Book Review

The Creative Writing Course Book. ISBN-13: 978-0-333-78225-5 Published by Macmillan.

An excellent book to browse through or study. It is formulated by 40 authors who share their advice on creative writing.Topics range from getting started to characterisation, plotting, revising and workshops. The main theme ,as in the majority of writing self help books, is to write and keep writing to exercise the brain

One of the more memorable passages is called "Writing fom Experience" by Nell Dunn. In this she asks the reader to close their eyes and imagine themselves back in a childhood bedroom. Remembering the wallpaper, furniture,smells, and noises. Personally not so sure of the smells bits. I remember nappies and smelly feet. Try to write about yourself as a six-year-old from the perspective of a six-year-old using a mix of reality and fiction.

In my opinion this would make for a thought provoking piece.

Anyone else out there that has read this or indeed any book please share your thoughts with us.

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